Revises provisions relating to the counting of incarcerated persons for purposes of the apportionment of the population for certain election…

Existing law requires the Director of the Department of Corrections to compile the last known residential address of each offender immediately before the offender was sentenced to imprisonment in a facility or institution of the Department. (NRS 209.131) Existing law also requires: (1) the State Demographer, employed by the Department of Taxation, to, upon the completion of the decennial census, revise the population counts for every block, block group and census tract to count certain inmates in the block, block group and census tract of the inmate's last known residential address before incarceration; and (2) the Department of Corrections to, upon request, provide all available information to the State Demographer. (NRS 360.288) Existing law further requires that the population counts as revised by the State Demographer be used in the apportionment of legislative districts, congressional districts and districts of the Board of Regents. (NRS 218B.105, 304.065, 396.0414) Section 1 of this bill requires the Director of the Department of Corrections to collect and maintain an electronic record for each offender in a facility or institution of the Department that includes: (1) the last known residential address of the offender immediately before the offender was sentenced to imprisonment; (2) whether the offender is 18 years of age or older; and (3) the race or ethnicity of the offender. Section 3 of this bill requires the Director of the Department, before January 1, 2026, to collect and maintain for each offender in a facility or institution of the Department who will be released after July 1, 2030, the last known residential address of the offender immediately before the offender was imprisoned in the facility or institution. Section 2 of this bill requires the Department of Corrections to provide certain information to the State Demographer for every inmate in a facility or institution of the Department, including the information the Director is required to collect and maintain in the electronic record in section 1. Section 2 further requires the State Demographer to revise the population counts for every block, block group and census tract to count inmates in the block, block group or census tract in which the inmate was a resident before incarceration not later than 30 days after certain redistricting data is provided to the State. Lastly, section 2 requires that, for certain inmates whose last known residential address is unknown or whose last known residential address was not in this State, the State Demographer must: (1) not count the inmate in the block, block group and census tract of the facility or institution in which the inmate is incarcerated; and (2) count the inmate as a resident of a state unit not tied to a specific block, block group, census tract or other geographical unit.

Revises provisions relating to the counting of incarcerated persons for purposes of the apportionment of the population for certain election districts. (BDR 16-1134)